My lack of blogging has nothing to do with my slacker-ness but everything to do with my boring life.
Boring in that there is nothing new to report.
Are you sick of my excuses yet? :)
We currently live a very predictable married life. We go to bed between 930 and 10 weeknights, except for the occasional VCU basketball game that will keep us up past 11. We wake up between 6 and 630 every morning. Rick takes half of the time to get ready as he doesn't have to look as presentable as I do. And although I am usually up and adam first, he is usually out the door before I am out of the shower.
Because of our morning routine... we don't talk much before leaving for work and I call him on my drive to wish him a happy day.
Occasionally on a slow day I will talk to him on my lunch break but otherwise I see him when I get home. We eat some dinner, watch some tv and start the whole thing all over!
Now do you see why I have nothing to blog about?
Okay, so we do generally have a different lifestyle on the weekends, going to shows and hanging out with friends, but with the economy being so crappy and Rick not making 40 hours every week we have been hoarding our paychecks for bills!
No complaints from me though because we have finally taken down our tree and boxed up all of our christmas decorations!
I hope this finds everyone happy healthy and not too bored from my lack of exciting news! I have to be honest though considering how busy we constantly are, it has been very nice to just relax.
Love,
your mellow yellow richmond rices.
Ps. This is just an adorable eskimo I know :)
Not sure if I can safely say that I am late on the happy new year wishes because I am a slacker or because it really has been a busy start to a new year... but I am going to go with the latter...
We had a great new years with a few friends at a concert... Then we stayed in and had a lazy new years day which was sooo wonderful! Rick fixed us a big brunch (which happened to be our first meal on our brand new and quite adorable kitchen table!)
As for school, it has been a tad bit hectic! We have 3 transitions throughout the school year (kind of run on semesters like a college: summer, fall, spring...) And they occur in June, September and you guessed it, January. So, we are gearing up to have 7 move up to my room which will make 28 on my roster with 26 on any given day (we have some part-timers that flip-flop days).
More kids means another teacher! They have hired another assistant. I am excited about having the extra support. I currently have an amazing support teacher but some months it is hard to get everything done on top of EVERYTHING ELSE (I mean seriously, my kids have a 4 page assessment I fill out monthly and every 3 months they get sent home with comments from me, basically their report cards.) It will definitely be nice to have another person to help get all the project prep work finished so I can focus on the more administrative things! Plus, with an extra 7 kids per day we are going to need the extra classroom management skills!
It sounds stressful, well it is going to be, but for someone like me who absolutely loves her job, the challenging side of all of this is the exciting part!
I definitely think it helps that whatever I teach my kids, they absorb, so it makes me want to teach them everything I can... and with 3 teachers in the classroom, it is going to open a lot more windows to teach them EVERYTHING they want to learn.
Enough about me... there is more exciting news in this Rice household!!!
For those of you who don't know, Rick has been talking about opening an excavation company since I met him. It has always been his dream...he really is just a man who still loves to play in dirt :)!
Well this year, he made it his new year's resolution... so he had the whole year to accomplish this goal but managed to meet it in 7 days!
Yes that's right, Rick started a company, his very own, state-licensed company!
So if you need a septic system installed or land cleared for say... a parking lot or driveway, Rick is the guy for you! Call- JR Rice Excavation!
Right now he is only taking weekend jobs and eventually plans to bring in enough money to quit his current full-time job to expand, but right now he is just taking baby steps. We will keep everyone posted on his progress!
So needless to say, I think the busy new year excuse works because boy has it been busy!
We hope this finds everybody happy, healthy and keeping warm!
Love,
your business-booming richmond rices.
Ps. Because we've been missing our weekly posts "from the rice cache," I thought I would share one from Christmas...
Delaney at the Shelton family Christmas in Maryland, waaay too precious not to post!
